[Plugin: WP Issuu] Embedding ISSUU using custom_fields

The following might help someone:

My Goal:

• Display an introduction + image on the front page
• Display the ISSUU-embed on the single-post-page (single.php)
• Remove the sidebar to make space for the ISSUU-embed

Here’s how you can achieve this:
0. Install the plugin

1. Create custom wordpress-category-templates. Check here.

2. Make a single_issuu_post.php for your ISSUU documents. embed it in your single.php file.

3. Remove the sidebar code
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

4. Add the WordPress ISSUU embed code in a custom field (I called it “issuu_embed_link”)

5. Add the following code in single_issuu_docs.php

<?php
  $this_post_id = the_ID();
  $custom_fields = get_post_custom( $this_post_id );
  $my_custom_field = $custom_fields['issuu_embed_link'];
  foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value )
     //Call the ISSUU parsing function from the plugin
     echo(issuu_parse($value));

I removed <?php the_content(); ?> because I did not want to show my “front-page introduction”.